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zaterdag 23 juni 2012

WANDERBACH page 51

It doesn’t make
it easier but his encouraging words help because it shows that he knows how tantalizing
the long descent is.

At a new
rotation the Nymph stops and turns while she presses a finger against her lips.

- ‘This is the
last bend’; she whispers. ‘We are no ten yards from Underearth. You only need
to go the last part to a large hall where several paths come together. You will
know which the right one is.

- Here we have
to say goodbye because otherwise the Gods will notice and aim their anger to
destroy me.’

She looks at
him, asking for understanding and when Tork nods she smiles veiled. He kisses
her for the last time and sees how fast she hovers upwards to the safe surface.
Then he turns with a feeling of lost for the last steps.

In the high
vast hall doom numerous corridors as dark gates in the distant walls. The dogs
sniff alert and Tork stops to orientate. It is like the Nymph said. He doesn’t know why but the right passage,
the beginning of the road to the Gods, lures left and he walks quickly in that
direction with the dogs just behind he looks carefully around searching for a
first ambush. The Gods will know by now and it shall not take long before they
let that know.

At the entrance
he stops again and traces the dusk in the bow-shape gate but he can’t see
anything alarming. Also the dogs give no sign of danger and appeased he walks
into what seems to be a narrow corridor which gradually broadens.